Need a laptop that works with Istaria

[ktrones]

anybody have a laptop with the new APU hardware running Istaria?

[Sindala]

APU?

I got Istaria running on an old vista Laptop, A Toshiba Satalite 2mb Ram.
Aslong as you got 2 meg ram you can run Istaria (even without a graphics card) just use the inbuilt intel driver.
Game will run on medium settings at a respectable 8-12fps (not bad atall for an old sheddy laptop)

Rift melted my Alienware laptop's GPU (legal issue ongoing with Trion) seems all new games just arn't written for newer Graphics cards, only the very latest model and anything older than half a year will struggle (even thou they say on the box it will be fine)

[Sindala]

Sorry i ment 2gb Ram not 2mb. Doh!!!!

[Malicore]

running a g560 Lenovo laptop and Istaria runs fine even with dual log. 2.1 ghz APU, upgraded the mem to 8 gig (max) 1.7 gb intel vid. most problems are due to Intel or Istaria's lack of Intel driver support for games

[Northwind]

I'm running Istaria on Intel HD4000 embedded graphics for quite a while already without any issues (Dell 7720 with Intel i5-3210m).
My daughter used to run Istaria on her laptop using Intel HD3000 embedded graphics (i5-2537m)

So i can safely say that any core-i Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge Laptop is enough to run Istaria - even the ultrabooks equipped with low power cpu's as is my daughter's i5-2537 1.4ghz with turbo upto 2.3ghz.

[Drevar]

Pretty much any 2ghz CPU (single or multi) will run istaria. For graphics all you need is a shader 2.0 compliant video card. The game engine is more CPU dependant than GPU.

With any of the newer APU's, you may experience stutter as the chip has fits of laughter at Istaria's weak requirements..;D
Just for comparison, my i5-3570 and GTX560Ti don't even spin up the fans when playing.

[Malicore]

this game will still run fine on a 750 mhz cpu with 128 - 256 meg graphics card (nvidia is best with those). most problems with the game is the coding is old, and new cpu's process info too fast for the game to actually keep up as well as older cops. there is however a way to slow the cpu down and get it more stable. there are programs out there that you can use to lower cpu speed.

soon, i fear comps will way out perform this games abilities. due to it's coding. i'm suprised it's still running at all.

[ktrones]

this is the specs I'm looking at. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pav...specifications

[Northwind]

If it is an AMD A6-4400M then it should be fine although it is a bit slower than Intel HD 4000 found in the Ivy Bridge laptops.